On 2017-04-28 10:21 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Friday, April 28, 2017 at 9:47:55 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:

> I do feel sorry for some of the families, but they'd be in hell
> either way. On instance that I can recall, the parents OD'd
> and the children kept going to school and making do for several
> days after mommy and daddy fell asleep and wouldn't wake up.
> I get the shivers just thinking about those kids.


There is a growing number of "safe injection" sites up here. Concerned
about the use of dirty needles leading to hepatitis, HIV and other
diseases being transmitted, and overdoses, a couple cities have set up
these places for drug users to come and inject their drug of choice in a
safe environment. They are have medical staff on hand to seal with
overdoses, and I suppose they offer counselling for the junkies who
choose to listen.

It sounds like an idiotic idea to me, and a misnomer. If they have to
have medical personnel on hand to cope with over doses, it is not safe.
It also assumes that the junkies will always go there to hit up. I have
to wonder about the legal liabilities. They are inviting people to come
to their facilities and to use illegal substances. I can't see how, in
this litigious society, that could not make them liable if someone ODs
and dies or incapacitated for life. They were party to an illegal activity.